[SunHELP] Permission denied as root

[Frederick Lefebvre]

It appears that /var is a separate partition. You can not delete a mount 
point if it is in used (the partition is mounted).

Fred

Steve Wingate wrote:

> Why in God's name would you want to removed /var? One can only assume that it's /var you're trying to delete since you don't tell us which directory you're in. Chances are something in that directory is being used. 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:02:53 -0900
> "Matthew Schumacher" <schu at schu.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ok, I don't understand how this could be.  Isn't root like god?
>>
>># ls -al | grep var
>>drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Nov  7 09:15 var
>>
>># rm -rf var
>>rm: Unable to remove directory var: Permission denied
>>
>># /usr/ucb/whoami
>>root
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>schu
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